Important Dates
Jan. 31- No School Feb. 5 - PE Swimming Field Trip Feb. 10 - Pizza Party for grade 5 Feb. 12-14 - No School Staff Retreat Feb. 17 - No School Family Day Math & Science: Mr. Sonico is almost finished with interviewing students with their mental multiplication. This is a chance for students to show their understanding of special number properties like multiplying by 10s, doubling, halving, etc. If your child has completed the interview, there should be clips of this interview in SeeSaw. We also continued our work with division, practicing the 2 methods (partial quotient and the box method) we learned last week. In science we started the electricity and magnetism unit, and on the first day we were able to light up a light bulb using only a battery and 2 wires! Looking ahead: keep practicing division problems, long division, electricity safety and where we use it in everyday life Humanities: This week was our last week for spending time with the Mock Caldecott titles. There were a lot of books eliminated, as we took the selections from 20 books, down to 10 books, then down to 5 books. We selected our winner on Friday. We focused on examining each book based on the Caldecott criteria, and tried hard to see the merits of a book, even if it wasn’t a book we liked. Students will find out which book won our Mock Caldecott on Monday. We will also find out the results of the real Caldecott Medal on Monday morning. Students worked on a proposal letter that requests a Mock Caldecott book be purchased for the school and added to our Learning Commons Collection. The proposal includes a book trailer and a piece of opinion writing. The proposal letter and book trailer are due Tuesday of next week. Mrs. Sterling is also teaching us and leading an inquiry around the role of stories. Looking Ahead: Mrs. Sterling will be taking the lead with our inquiry into stories.
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